-Director Kappos backs off some promises of relief in new appeal fees. [Director’s Forum]

-“We are living in an age of retrenchment with regard to patent law, where thirty years of Federal Circuit precedent . . . is being reconsidered by the inconstant, almost fickle attention of the U.S. Supreme Court.” -Kevin Noonan on AMP v. Myriad remand. [Patent Docs]